A small announcement :)
5 years after its inception, under the guiding hand of Shae Erisson (aka
shapr), the #haskell IRC channel[1] on freenode has finally reached 300
users!
We reached 200 users in January, 250 users for the first time in August,
and didn't expect hit to reach 300 for a while. Then last night:
12:50 lambdabot> Maximum users seen in #haskell: 305
This puts the channel at around position 15 of the 4000 freenode
channels. For comparision, a sample of the state of the other language
communities:
#perl 484
#php 474
#c 381
#c++ 379
#ruby 368
> #haskell 305
#python 303
#lisp 214
#java 213
#javascript 156
#scheme 112
#lua 72
#ocaml 56
#sed 35
#d 33
You can see the growth of the channel over here:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/irc/nick-activity.png
If you've not dropped by the channel yet, feel free to come and chat,
and toss around some lambdas! :)
Cheers,
Don
1. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel